🤖 Bias in Recruiting AI; Home LLM Training; US Power Shortage
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OpenAI's GPT Is a Recruiter's Dream Tool. Tests Show There's Racial Bias. Lately, Tatiana Becker has been flooded with work. As the founder of the boutique US firm NIAH Recruiting, she spends her days sifting through hundreds of resumes, hoping to fill dozens of roles at companies that have hired her to find matching employees. Companies tend to hire the most at the start of the year, mainly because of hiring budgets that have been set and go into effect in the first quarter. By Leon Yin via Bloomberg
𝕏: New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. - Leon Yin (@LeonYin)
You can now train a 70b language model at home. Today, we’re releasing Answer.AI’s first project: a fully open source system that, for the first time, can efficiently train a 70b large language model on a regular desktop computer with two or more standard gaming GPUs (RTX 3090 or 4090). At Answer.AI our north star is making useful AI more accessible. Answer.AI
𝕏: Today, with @Tim_Dettmers, @huggingface, & @mobius_labs, we're releasing FSDP/QLoRA, a new project that lets you efficiently train very large (70b) models on a home computer with consumer gaming GPUs. - Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward)
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Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power. Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid. By Evan Halper via Washington Post
𝕏: seems bad - bomani (@bomani_jones)
Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe's Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro. OpenAI responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit this week, with a blog post that included emails dating to 2015. We talk about whether the lawsuit could have any impact on the company, and who stands to benefit from it. Then, will the European Union’s Digital Markets Act make the tech industry a more competitive environment for entrepreneurs? We look at how some of the biggest tech giants are changing their services to comply with the law. By Kevin Roose via The New York Times
Pixel 8 not getting Gemini Nano due to 'hardware limitations'. During the Q&A portion, a Google engineer on the Android generative AI team said that Gemini “Nano will not be coming to Pixel 8 because of some hardware limitations.” Google is otherwise “working to bring Nano to more devices.” Specifically, more “high-end devices in the near future.” By Abner Li via 9to5Google
𝕏: RIP Pixel 8 (Oct 2023-Mar 2024). Will not be getting Gemini AI, due to “hardware limitations”. Google just killed this phone. So much for 7 years of support. Can’t even get the first iteration of Googles phone AI model. - TechOdyssey | #TechRejects (@AdamJMatlock)
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